UI Hospital Wedding With Transplant Bride
Katrina Frendle of Cedar Rapids and Nancy Jordan of Moline share a moment at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as Jordan pins a corsage on Frendle. Jordan’s daughter Nikole Kommer received a heart transplant after Frendle’s son died in 2001 at age 11, leaving a son on the waiting list.
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Carey) Kommer
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University of Iowa
Iowa City
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UI Hospital
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Cedar Rapids
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Moline
Jordan
Nikole Kommer
Frendle
Heart transplant fuels moving Iowa wedding story
Katrina Frendle watched her son Keith inspire a wedding despite his death in 2001 from an asthma attack. Keith’s heart was transplanted into Nikole Carey, now 27, who walked with her father at her wedding in Iowa, bearing Keith’s memory in a silver heart and boutonniere. Carey and Brandon Kommer planned an outdoor ceremony in WEDDING, PAGE 114.
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Katrina Frendle
Keith Frendle
Keith
Nikole Carey
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Carey
Orion
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Moline
Frandie
Cedar Rapids
Brandon Kommer
Cedar Rapids housing complex faces zoning vote
Cedar Rapids advocates push for Crestwood Ridge Apartments a $9 million affordable housing project with homeless accommodations facing possible defeat by a council lacking support. Neighbors raise drainage traffic property value and resident disruption concerns as the city panel weighs a required supermajority rezoning later this month.
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Iowa City Ped Mall Shooting Leads to Lockdown
A Cedar Rapids man, 19-year-old Demontine L Poole, was arrested after a shooting in downtown Iowa City near the Pedestrian Mall. Victim injuries are not life threatening. The incident began at 1 58 a m Sunday as crowds gathered and the university ER was locked down.
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University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Cedar Rapids
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